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Actually Edward Raia is still up there with his wife Nora, in two dusty rooms on the third floor. The place is difficult to find because of the way the stairway has to negotiate the boundary between the old frame building and the newer brick one, so Raia put up some signs he drew on posterboard, with Raia Tailor Shop and a pointing finger scrawled on them...
JUDGING FROM the experiences of the 28 celebrities who were interviewed for The First Time, relief and disappointment are not uncommon reactions. "My God, is this it?" Nora Ephron thought to herself after losing her virginity in a Harvard dormitory. "Is this what I've been going through all this torment about?" And Clifford Irving's first thought after his first time was, "That was lousy. I've got to fuck someone else." Perhaps it's just one of the facts of life that sexual initiation is a drag. Nevertheless, the subject continues to hold a certain fascination, whose power...
...press watchers think the newsmagazines and their covers deserved such censure. "Politicians might do better to figure out why our society causes people to act this way than to blame the newsmagazines," says Esquire Media Columnist Nora Ephron. "Even if you could prove that Sara Moore was looking at TIME or Newsweek as she loaded her gun, you'd still have to support a free press." Says Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee: "Journalists are in the business of describing what happens and we don't lie, which is more than a lot of politicians can say. The fearful...
Nixon now has five regular staff aides. They include former Marine Colonel Jack Brennan, his military aide as President; Private Secretary Nora Vandersommen, who was a White House secretary; Office Secretaries Loie Gant and Jo Anne Miller; and former Marine Sergeant Carl F. Howell, an assistant to Brennan. Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's longtime personal secretary, remains on Nixon's payroll but has worked mostly in Washington while awaiting retirement on a comfortable federal pension. The Nixons also still have Manolo and Fina Sanchez as personal servants. Manolo, his former White House valet, has taken on a strange...
...BASIC POINT that Nora Ephron is making about women and the women's movement is a good one. "In fact," she writes, "the movement is nothing more than amorphous blob of individual women and groups, most of whom disagree with each other." And the way she usually makes that point. In this collection of 25 deftly written little essays most of which originally appeared in Esquire or New York magazines, is to zero in on all sorts of different women, all of them indisputably individual--Gloria Steinem. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Linda Lovelace. But there is one highly individual woman...